Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing 165. Among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.[[Image:Nedelin Disaster 1.jpg|thumb|200px|Nedelin catastrophe,
Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740), died
